Celebration of being alive. Our FAILURE is not our mistake. Do you agree? Your opinion matters

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Celebration of being alive. Our FAILURE is not our mistake. Do you agree? Your opinion matters.

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I don’t think having SZ is a failure.

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Who says I am a failure?
Our disease is not our fault of course. But calling someone with this disease a “failure” because they can’t do something due to the limitations imposed by our symptoms like calling someone in a wheelchair a failure for not coming in “first place” in the Boston Marathon. You can not succeed at something you try to do, but it doesn’t mean you’re a failure.

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Both of you are correct. I was just posting that because I went through a little thing called hell once in a while all because of Schizophrenia.

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The way they put it in Narcotics Anonymous is “you aren’t responsible for the disease, but you are responsible for the cure”. I don’t know if that applies to us, but it sounds nice. We do have a responsibility to stay on our med’s. As for us being “failures” there are always ways to compensate, and ways to make a contribution, that might not be in the form of a nine to five job.

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Awesome reply. Being a job holder is a thing of past… I wish I can earn money so that I can buy health supplements and nootropics.

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I sympathize. But I think every person who has schizophrenia goes through their own personal hell, without exception. Everybody has a story, right?

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There is little doubt that Schizophrenia is hell no matter who it is…

But I noticed that some guys in this forum are better than me.

My Mother doesn’t have Schizophrenia but parts of her brain don’t work

for example Prefrontalcortex so I guess without Schizophrenia or with schizophrenia

some guys are better and few others are no so better and the rest are losers like myself.

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Every case of schizophrenia is different and everybody is at a different stage in their lives with this disease. People go up and down. And you never really know what’s going on with someone. You will always have people who are doing better than you and you will always have people doing worse. But things change, You may do better down the road. And someone will look at you and think you are doing better than him or her.

Yes, schizophrenia hits some people harder than others and “life” itself hits some people harder than others. It’s best not to compare yourself with other people, you will just frustrate yourself. Just do the best you can and things may work out.

I’ve had schizophrenia for 35 years. I have worked most of this time and gone to school. But you know what? When I first got sick when I was 19, my case was severe. Very severe and disabling. For 2 1/2 after I got sick I had nothing. I was a 20 year old with no job, no school, no friends, no girlfriend, no money, no sanity. Locked up for 8 months in a psychiatric hospital, scared, confused, suicidal. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. But I got better. Anyone looking at me at that time 35 years ago would never have dreamed that I would ever get better, let alone hold a job and go to school.

Life is a crap shoot. You never know who will get better with this disease and you can’t predict the future. I’ve seen too many people with schizophrenia make fantastic comebacks when it looked like they were finished. Anyway, this is my sermon for tonight, good luck.

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Celebration of being alive. I would say that fits quite nicely. In fact, I couldn’t be having a better time. It’s all in the mind.

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Thanks for being here and posting something very important and awesome too.

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I just dug up some old â– â– â– â–  that was bothering me.
Could I have graduated from that tough school if I hadn’t have had breaks?
My Mom acted like it was a failure.
I worried about this for years and it just simmered in the background.

The solution was to transfer to an easier school.
So you change for yourself, how you measure yourself.
Never compare your self to other people, because they have no clue what we deal with.

So what may appear as failure to judgemental others, may be total success with the cards you were dealt!

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I guess there is

  1. Absolute failure

and

(2.) Relative failure ( Comparing with others )